No school today...

Since it is a teacher workday, we are out delivering Hayden's fund raiser stuff she sold in the neighborhood. It is a beautiful day!

The leaves are finally started to change....

Guess the pumpkins contest....

FINALLY!
Dana P. got it right...
JEFF GORDAN!
Hayden LOVES Jeff Gordan...we live close enough to one of the Nascar tracks that we take her every year! Her Texas parents are doing a fine job raising a 'redneck' daughter! :-)


Another Hint: He LOVES the fast track....
one more...he is 24
even another...he's no Regis

I told you all that Brent LOVES to carve pumpkins! On Saturday after the children chose their pumpkins, he could not wait to carve them. They (okay mainly Brent) methodically picked what they wanted and he got to work! There is Hayden, Pete, Cal and Kayla to guess pumpkins for....I will even help out a little...Kayla's pumpkin is just a silly face on the top left.
I can't wait to hear your guesses (obviously, only one is going to be hard)! I don't have a prize for you but I will sure give you tons of recognition! :-)
HINT: Just glance don't study and it helps to know who some of her favorite people are....

Our Fall-filled weekend....

actually began on Friday night with a trip to the school Halloween Carnival! Kayla (Hayden's dearest friend who does so much with us she is like our other daughter), Hayden and Pete all dressed up in their costumes and had a blast!
Saturday Morning, we all got up and went to a nearby farm for their Fall festival! This is a picture of the strawberries that they have already planted for an April harvest!
One of the first things we did was take a horse and buggy tour of the farm and the tour guide let Hayden come up and drive the team.

Next, we took a hay ride out to the back of the farm and did 1.5 mile corn maze. We had a lot of fun.
While we waited on the tractor to come back and get us from the corn maze, Pete had to make a pit stop.
A boys dream......a combine!
It was only slightly large....
The last stop we made was another hayride to the pumpkin patch....Cal found one!
The group with their pumpkins!
Oh...what sweet faces!
Hayden decided that after we found our pumpkins that she needed a gourd.

Saturday night, we took the kids down to the gardens for the YMCA haunted trail! Pete is showing some brotherly love or maybe what he learned on the trail....sorry Molly!

The start of a special treat....

On Sunday, Brent carved all the kids pumpkins. This is his greatest love...carving pumpkins!
I will post the final result in another post...so we can play the guessing game! :-)

To be 4 again....

We have had my 2 nephews this weekend and have been VERY busy with fall activities! As a matter of fact, we are still in the middle of one those activities right now so tomorrow I will post all about the weekend! I thought the following pics of Pete needed a place of their own...typical sillies of a 4 year old!
I will return back to our trips from last weekend in a couple of days (there is still plenty more).

Fall is coming...

You know how I know? The zipper spiders are out! They are about the only spider that I think is cool!
I find them extremely fascinating! Click on these and make them bigger.